About
I’m a designer and second-generation creative who has been in the advertising business pretty much my whole life. I’m currently the Worldwide Interactive Creative Director for Starwood Hotels & Resorts where I lead global digital design and branding for their 10 brands including W Hotels, Westin, Sheraton, and St. Regis. Before leaving the agency world I created award winning integrated advertising for clients like Acura, American Airlines, Disney, ExxonMobil, Nationwide Insurance, Sprint, Sears, Serta, Subaru, Verizon, Yahoo! and others. All that work has been recognized with over 100 major awards including Canne Cyber Lions, CLIO awards, Local Regional and National ADDY awards, Webby Awards, Adobe Site of the Day, Web Awards, Communication Arts Site of the Week, New York Festivals and I was chosen by the editors of Media Post and OMMA magazines as one of their three 2009 Online Marketing All-Stars. I’m a member of the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences and judge the Webby Awards, Web Awards and Interactive Advertising Awards every year.
This blog is an extension of my personal portfolio site and is a collection of rants, resources, observations and advice about Web sites, usability design, technology, the advertising industry and who knows what else that are just too well done, funny or weird not share.
I live in New York City where an hour from now I will probably be locked away in my studio slowly going blind working on a new design or this blog. That has to be love or insanity – since it is advertising it is probably a bit of both. It takes a village so let me know what you think
Partial list of awards and accomplishments:
• Webby Awards – 3 finalists and 5 honorees
• Communication Arts – 2 Site of the Week awards, Interactive Annual and Design Interact interview
• Cannes Cyber Lions
• CLIO Awards – Best self-promotional web site – tm-interactive.com
• ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Pioneer Award (1 of 7 awarded worldwide)
• ADDY Awards – 29 local, regional and national awards including the first campaign to ever win Best Integrated Campaign and Best of Show Regional with no TV in the campaign.
• WebAwards – 20 awards
• Adobe Site of the Day – 6 awards
• New York Festivals – 3 awards
• American Design Awards – 9 awards
• Chosen by the editors of MediaPost and OMMA magazines as one of their three 2009 Online Marketing All Stars
• Member of International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences and Webby Awards Judge
• My blog is a 2008 Webby Awards Honoree for Best Personal Site, HOW Magazine Top 10 site and is listed on the AdAge Magazine Power 150.
Articles published in:
HOW magazine, CREATE magazine, Behance 99Percent.com, TAXI design network, Creative Latitude magazine
Spoken at:
World Usability Day – Building Brands with Every Interaction
FUSE – Memory Loss and Hamburger: Getting the Best Out of Your Internal Creative Teams
Community 2.0 – Non-traditional Social Media
San Francisco Art Directors Club
Houston Art Directors Club
